Animals

The Missouri Department of Conservation says that it has confirmed that a mountain lion was recently in Shannon County. This is the first confirmed female mountain lion in the state since 1994, according to the Department of Conservation.

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reports that it collected approximately 19,200 tissue samples for chronic-wasting-disease (CWD) testing from this past weekend’s mandatory sampling efforts at 75 stations in 29 counties in and around where the fatal deer disease has been …

Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that deer hunters in Missouri harvested 96,131 deer during the opening weekend of the November portion of the fall firearms deer season Nov. 12 and 13.